Hypergrid Business

$23 a month for a two-by-two or four-by-four 45,000-prim varregion on the hypergrid-enabled Discovery Grid. Includes daily backups, Vivox voice and Gloebit currency. Six-by-six and eight-by-eight varregions also available, for $30 a month, and up to 60,000 prims capacity. Filtered OAR region exports available for $30 per request. Check their region rental page for more […]

OpenSim’s average land prices have dropped to $14 per standard region, down from $18 last February. Average prices of a standard region on OpenSim grids. Shaded area is the full range of prices. (Hypergrid Business data.) The lowest price for a region dropped from $5 to $3, and the highest price fell from $60 to

(Image courtesy AviWorlds.) AviWorlds, the grid with the most ups and downs in the OpenSim metaverse, has changed course again. In a reversal of last month’s announcement that the grid would turn off hypergrid access and no longer accept deliveries from the Kitely Market, AviWorlds will now continue to be hypergrid-accessible, will allow its residents

One of the shops at High Fidelity’s Avatar Island. (Image courtesy High Fidelity.) Citing a lack of users and decent hardware, High Fidelity has decided to pivot away from the consumer market to focus on serving enterprises and laid off a quarter of its staff this month. “Daily headset use is only in the tens

Here I am at my desk in my old virtual office. I miss having my own OpenSim place. I didn’t use it much when I had it, but now that it’s gone, I want it back. So, of course, since I don’t want to have to keep a computer up and running all the time

Google Plus used to be a favorite place for grids and event organizers and residents to post announcements and discuss topics of interest to the community. Now that’s gone, it’s harder to keep track of what’s happening in OpenSim, with news scattered in hundreds of different communities, forums, calendars, and different social media platforms. Facebook

Sailing on Tag Grid. (Image courtesy Tag Grid.) Closed grids — where users can’t teleport over to other grids — have been losing ground in OpenSim lately and suffered a big hit last year with the closing of InWorldz. But some people prefer closed grids, where grid owners have more control over who can access

OpenSim has suffered a number of shocks in the past year, with several significant grid closings in a row. OpenSim’s largest closed grid, InWorldz, shut down last summer. Its successor, Islandz, closed earlier this year. Virtual Highway shut down in December. We lost both Lost Paradise and its owner this past year. Sanctuary, my favorite

(Image courtesy AviWorlds.) In its ongoing quest to find a sustainable business model, the commercial AviWorlds grid is giving the no-hypergrid approach another go. “AviWorlds needs to be a private community now,” grid owner Alexsandro Pomposelli told  Hypergrid Business. “Avi-Labs needs to create value and also a distinguishing characteristic from all these other grids out

(Data courtesy Kitely.) The Kitely Market, OpenSim’s largest commercial content marketplace, has passed the 30,000 item milestone this month. The market currently delivers to 345 different grids, both hypergrid-enabled and closed, private grids. (Instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.) Ilan Tochner According to Kitely co-founder and CEO Ilan

(Image by JanBaby via Pixabay.) A couple of readers — okay, several readers — have written to me complaining about the outages on the Hypergrid Business website, so this morning I’ve been following up with tech support at my hosting company, Dreamhost. One of the things was trivial — the https:// security was in place,

US $6 per month for a 20,000-prim standard region on the hypergrid-enabled Breath in Freedom grid. Variable-sized regions and additional prims also available. See land rental page for more information. Source: Hypergrid Business

,A region on Lost Paradise grid. John Skakandy, known to OpenSim users as  Cloneu Inglewood, died of cancer last month in Florida. Skakandy was the owner of the Lost Paradise grid, which he founded in 2011. The grid received the top rankings in our 2012 reader survey, with perfect scores for community, content, support, and

US  $12  (R$50) for a 25,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled, Portuguese-language Vida Dupla grid. Source: Hypergrid Business

Serene Vineyard Island on the DigiWorldz grid. (Snapshot by Maria Korolov.) Gloebit  is a virtual currency accepted on about forty different OpenSim grids, and is the most popular currency on the hypergrid by a very large margin.  Gloebit works roughly similar to PayPal. Users  create a Gloebit account on the website, transfer money into it,